Let’s reflect on 2021 with a selection of pictures to highlight events of another difficult year for aviation. The year was largely dominated (again) by the pandemic, resulting in numerous travel restrictions and border closures. Domestic air travel in Russia…
The Archer Aviation eVTOL has made its first hover flight on December 16, the US start-up announced on December 20. The Maker demonstrator aircraft hovered for an unspecified duration, nor the Archer provided details of the altitude. A picture on its…
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The market for Urban Air Mobility (UAM)-vehicles has seen two significant order and partnership announcements this week, both from the same company. Houston-based helicopter specialist Bristow Group has signed orders for a combined 150 eVTOLs with Embraer’s EVE and Vertical Aerospace. Bristow…
EVE Urban Air Mobility Solutions and Singapore-based UAM-startup Ascent have joined forces to accelerate the development of the market for ‘flying taxis’ in the Asia-Pacific region. As such, Embraer’s startup EVE makes another step, having made a raft of announcements earlier…
When you are a start-up aerospace company that can announce pre-orders for some 1.000 of your yet-to-fly airplane and at the same time attract new investors, you can’t consider yourself to have had a bad day. Exactly this has happened…